Ok so I have read quite a few of these and instead of reviewing them all separately I’m going to just group it all together under this one. The more I keep up with the blog the easier it will be for me to review every single one. But for now I’ll show the covers of all of them. If you click on them it should send you to a link with the goodreads synopsis.

I honestly have a love hate relationship with these books.

I can’t stop reading them, I love them. But sometimes some of the stuff is so annoying! Let me explain.

I love the covers. They are adorable. I love the titles because they are all baking and food related what’s not to love?

The mysteries are always really good! The plots are always amusing and make you want to read. The characters are so amazing that it feels like you’re watching a tv show. They are all around pleasant reads. Definitely good enough that I keep reading them. I will say out of the ones mentioned above Key Lime Pie Murder was my least favourite and Peach Cobbler Murder was my favourite!

Now onto the two things that annoy me about this series. The boys. How on earth is she dating two guys at once?! Hannah is not only dating the two guys, but they both know about each other! Their dating is so unrealistic and old school that it honestly makes me laugh so hard. Yet at the same time …. I need to know which one!

The other thing that annoys me is Hannah’s age but how she acts. She’s supposed to be 30 but wow sometimes I just shake my head. No cell phone, no computer, no kissing boys … what?!?! but I guess that is accurate with a cozy mystery, they are meant to be really reserved. But realistically I’m sure we all want to see Hannah just go a bit crazy with the boys!

“Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.

Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle’s laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.”

I have such mixed feelings about this book. I originally gave it three stars when I just finished reading it. But then when I thought back on it, I decided to give it four stars.

When I first started reading it I was so disappointed. I thought I was going to DNF it which was really upsetting me because I don’t generally buy hardcover books unless I absolutely can’t wait for softcover. This was one of those cases where I absolutely needed to read this book ASAP. A lot of it had to do with the fact that the cover is gorgeous and it was old England which is one of my weaknesses. I however made a big big mistake. I honestly didn’t know who Jack the Ripper was. I think if you don’t know anything about him, you’ll be in for a bit of a surprise! Not such a great surprise! I don’t do gore, but let me tell you, Jack the Ripper is all about gore. Nasty nasty gore. There were parts of this book that I absolutely struggled to get through. It was making my stomach turn, but I had to keep reading.

Once I got past the gore parts which was the beginning half of the book, the book was absolutely amazing. I think what makes this book the best is that ending!! WOW!

So if you can handle the gore of books, I would say read this, it’s such a good book!

I don’t really know how to wrap up my reading in 2016. I definitely didn’t read as many books as I had wanted to. With work and just a bunch of other things going on I didn’t get a lot of reading done compared to oher years.

I read 65 books and a total of 23 114 pages.

I’ll just post what my best books of 2016 were, so the books I gave 5 stars to. I don’t often give books 5 stars.

Sooooo I had high hopes for my December reading … but life is always so busy! I got a decent amount of reading done. The books I read this month were longer than most other books so there’s that. But still not as much blogging as I would have liked. Maybe I should make a resolution and try to upkeep better! any tips? The books I did read were fantastic though!!

So lets see what December brought for me!

I read these in December:

Currently Reading:

I’m going into the new year with no book started! Fresh book choosing happens tomorrow 🙂

“Cranberry farm owner Monica Albertson is once again bogged down in murder in the second Cranberry Cove mystery from national bestselling author Peg Cochran.

The entire town of Cranberry Cove is popping with excitement. Monica Albertson is baking cranberry goodies by the dozen and shopkeepers are decking out their storefronts for the first annual Winter Walk—an event dreamed up by the mayor to bring visitors to the town during a normally dead time of year.

But it’s the mayor who turns up dead during the grand opening ceremony, his lifeless body making its entrance in a horse-drawn sleigh. Monica’s mother and stepmother quickly become the prime suspects when it’s discovered that the mayor was dating both of them, and to make things worse, her half brother Jeff uncovers a clue buried near one of the bogs on Sassamanash Farm. Now it’s up to Monica to find out who really put the mayor on ice.”

I received this book from Berkley Publishing as a thank you after they reached out to me about finding out why I liked cozy mysteries so much.

As someone who loves the winter this book was an absolute delight.

This book had all the good qualities of a great cozy mystery. It had the cutest little town, as many cozy mysteries do. Think of Gilmore Girls and Stars Hallow, this book totally had that feel. It had the main character who obviously loved to bake, and just everything about it was great.

I loved the little bit of drama between Monica’s mother and stepmother. At first it felt a bit like Cinderella just with the whole step mother thing happening. So that added to the appeal to me.

If you’re looking for a good cozy mystery with a nice winter and Christmas vibe, I would totally recommend this book.

Hey everyone I just wanted to give an update. I am definitely reading again, and keeping up with my bookstagram which is super exciting for me!

But now I want to take my blog further. So if you have any tags you’d like to tag me in, I’d love to do it while I’m figuring out things to blog about. Send those tags my way!

As for reviews I am not sure I can successfully post reviews on books I’ve read months ago. So I’m going to start with reviews of the most recent books I have read. If I feel I can give a short and sweet review on books I’ve read a while ago I will go ahead and do that.

I am starting to blog more and really dive back into all things book related. While I try to figure out the direction I’d like to go with this blog, I’m coming up with random posts. Feel free to tag me in Tag Posts and I’ll participate when I have the chance.

It’s almost winter and while we don’t seem to get snow like we used to, there is something about winter that just makes me so happy. With that happiness comes a lot of reading! So I’ve for the first time in forever actually created a TBR list. I thought I’d share it. With work and life who knows if I will get to all of these books, but at least it’s there and motivation for me to read them all! Have you read any of these? Any comments? Which are must reads?

Hi everyone!!! I am so sorry for my absence I have had so much going on but I am back!!! So here is my October Wrap Up. I honestly havent been reading much because work has started up for me again and I’ve been super busy, I didn’t read a single book in September!

I also havent had a chance to blog about this so I will within this post 🙂 I was contacted by the amazing Berkley Publishing company over the summer 🙂 They wanted my input on some cozy mysteries and in exchange they sent me some amazing books for review and pictures up on my IG. If you guys aren’t following me on my IG you totally should!

So at the end of this post you can also see all the wonderful books that were sent to me. I am definitely looking forward to reading them all.